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6 unusual facts about Miskolc


Carpathian Mountains

The most important cities in or near the Carpathians are: Bratislava and Košice in Slovakia; Kraków in Poland; Cluj-Napoca, Sibiu and Braşov in Romania; and Miskolc in Hungary.

Emmanuelle Jouannet

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Gothic Protestant Church of Avas

The Gothic Protestant Church of Avas is the oldest building in the centre of the city of Miskolc in Northern Hungary.

Greek Orthodox Church and Museum, Miskolc

The Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church and its Liturgical Museum can be found in the Downtown of Miskolc (7 Deák square.)

Mindszent Church

The Mindszent Church (Mindszenti templom) is a Roman Catholic parish church in the centre of Miskolc, Hungary.

St. Anne's Church, Miskolc

The church also used to be the end terminus of the first tram line of Miskolc between 1897 (the beginning of tram service) and 1905.


1878 Flood in Miskolc

On August 30, 1878 large storms coming from the Transdanubian region arrived in Northern Hungary – first in Eger, next in Óhuta, Diósgyőr and Miskolc, and then in Tállya, Golop and Mád.

Anders Nordberg

At WOC 2009 in Miskolc, Hungary, during the last leg of the relay race Thierry Gueorgiou (France), Michal Smola (Czech Republic) and Nordberg were close behind the lead runner, Martin Johansson (Sweden), when Johansson suffered a 12 cm deep penetrating trauma from a stick in his right thigh.

Andrey Khramov

He won the World Orienteering Championships in the sprint distance in Olomouc in 2008 and defended his title in Miskolc in 2009.

Borsod Brewery

Borsod Brewery or Brewery of Borsod (Borsodi Sörgyár Rt.) is a brewery located in the village of Bőcs, near Miskolc, the capital of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county in northeastern Hungary.

Borsod County

Several monasteries were founded in the region, in Százd (by the Aba clan, 11th century), Boldva (by the queen, 12th century), Kács (by the Örsúr clan), Tapolca (by the Miskolc clan), Bélháromkút (by the Bishop of Eger, after 1232).

Coat of arms of Miskolc

Its legend is unreadable, and disputes arose about the identity of its heraldic figure, a king's head with a fleur-de-lis crown – according to one theory it is St. Stephen, the patron saint of the Avas church, but the fleur-de-lis indicates a king of the Angevin dynasty, possibly Louis the Great, who gave Miskolc town rights.

Gemer

Today in Hungary the name of Gömör/Gemer preserved only in the name of a small village, Gömörszőlős and in that of Gömöri station, the smaller railway station of Miskolc.

Miskolc International Film Festival

According to György Báron’s article published in the leading weekly Élet és Irodalom in 2010, ‘the brilliant film selection at this year’s CineFest was the best of all Hungarian festival line-ups ever’; furthermore the Miskolc film muster was the first among the Hungarian film festivals to have entered the field of the great international festivals.

Szilárd Keresztes

Szilárd Keresztes (born on July 19, 1932 in Nyíracsád, Hungary) is the retired bishop of the Hungarian Greek Catholic diocese of Hajdúdorog and apostolic governor of Miskolc by 20 years, and retired since 2008.

Tállya

Tállya is a village in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Northern Hungary, 45 kilometres from county seat Miskolc, in the famous Tokaj-Hegyalja wine district.


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